정보의 바다에서사이버그는 무엇을 꿈꾸는가?

What does Human being/Cyborg dream of in the sea of information?: Rereading <Ghost in the Shell>

SF genre in the Japanimation has a philosophical characteristic of identity problem between the human being and the cyborg. Especially Oshii Mamoru's <Ghost in the Shell> reminds us typical and classical arguments about mind-body relationship of the human being's identity arguments replacing that by cyborg's ghost-shell relationship. From another perspective, the identity problem through <Ghost in the Shell> is connected with Japan's national identity conflict from the outside as well as from the inside. In the information society, lives of individuals are intertwined with hyper technology, especially humanized cyborg and are controlled by the central system which represents the power of info-imperialism. Since Japan is recognized as the nation of techno-empire, the future society based technology means 'Japanised' in a sens, so the characters of the film- cyborg, cyborg-human being, human being- respond to the twisted 'Techno-Orientalism'. The narrative text has two levels; recit d'evenment and recit de paroles. The first one follows up the resolution of the mysterious puppet master's project confirming thriller genre's narrative convention. However the second one suggests continuously the heroin named Kusanaki Mokoto's identity conflict. It is interesting to analyze the signification of above question being inspired by Donald Davidson's Anomalous Monism. According to Davidson, there is no strict physical and psychological law between mental events and physical events. Therefore there will be some possibility to presume a casual relationship as well as casual identity. This thesis make us to introspect the connotation of significance regarding cyborg's identity problem relating live's identity on which this text focus through Kusanaki, Puppet Master, Cleaners' fake memory problem and so on……